Tuesday, April 09, 2024

how to make friends

If you're Max it means you just follow the person you want to befriend until they get tired and flop down. Then you can flop down really close to them or on top of them. It doesn't matter if they're smaller than you. You're just a baby. Then they're your best friend. And when someone else comes into the room, you can do the same to them so you have a lot of best friends. It's also called family.

I don't think Max gets consent, we'll have to teach him better. Big A is reading The Bee Sting now and both of us chuckle with horror (is that possible?) at how clueless 12-year-old PJ, one of the narrators, is. 

Pic: Huck submerged under Max early this morning.

5 comments:

Nicole said...

Awwwww Max. I like his style.
Okay okay okay The Bee Sting is on hold at the library! Even though it's (gasp) BY A MAN. (I am reading The Berlin Stories right now, and R is like "is that by a man, are you okay?")

NGS said...

This is CRAZY to me because Hannah does not like to be touched. She's enthusiastic about belly rubs, but does not voluntarily touch others. And yet! I hear these rumors about cuddly dogs. People who say animals don't have personalities are very wrong.

Gillian said...

Cute.

Nance said...

I love this photo. Some dogs are just blissfully unaware of boundaries.

I'm ordering The Bee Sting.

maya said...

Nicole--"Are you ok?" LOL

Nicole and Nance--I hope you like the book. Now is when I begin to worry if I've ruined it for you by overhyping it!

Engie--I 100% agree on personalities... each of ours is so idiosyncratic, it just makes me love them more.

Thanks, Gillian! Thanks, Nance! I am lucky these two bring so much joy and so many chuckles to my life.

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